Dan Singer: Start-up Nation

CHAPTER 4.

Harvard, Princeton, and Yale

1. Interview with David Amir (fictitious name), August 2008.

2. Interview with Gil Kerbs, venture capitalist, January 2009.

3. Interview with Gary Shainberg, vice president for technology and innovation, British Telecom, August 2008.

4. IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook (Lausanne, Switzerland: IMD, 2005).

5. Interview with Mark Gerson, executive chairman, Gerson Lehrman Group, January 2009.

6. Interview with Tal Keinan, cofounder KCPS, May 2008.

7. Interview with Yossi Vardi, angel investor, May 2008.

8. Background interview with U.S. Army recruiter, January 2009.

9. David Lipsky, Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point ; and interview with Lipsky in March 2009.

10. Information from this passage is largely based on an interview with Colonel (res.) John Lowry, general manager at Harley-Davidson Motor Company, November 2008.

11. Interview with Jon Medved, CEO and board member, Vringo, May 2008.

12. This experience prompted the army leadership to pursue a proactive public relations campaign to bridge the civilian-military divide, which included reaching out to Rolling Stone and offering access to a West Point class. This effort culminated in David Lipsky’s book Absolutely American . This passage is also based on author interview with General John Abizaid, May 2009.

13. Interview with Tom Brokaw, author, The Greatest Generation , April 2009.

14. Interview with Al Chase, corporate executive recruiter and founder, White Rhino Partners, February 2009.

15. Interview with Nathaniel Fick, author of One Bullet Away , March 2008.

16. Interview with Brian Tice, captain (res.), U.S. Marine Corps, February 2009.

CHAPTER 5.

Where Order Meets Chaos

1. CIA, “Field Listing—Military Service Age and Obligation,” The 2008 World Factbook .

2. Mindef Singapore, “Ministerial Statement on National Service Defaulters by Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean,” January 16, 2006.

3. Amnon Barzilai, “A Deep, Dark, Secret Love Affair,” http://www.israelforum.com/board/archive/index.php/t-6321.html.

4. Mindef Singapore, “Speech by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong at the 35 Years of National Service Commemoration Dinner,” September 7, 2007.

5. BBC News, “Singapore Elder Statesman,” July 5, 2000, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/820234 .stm; retrieved November 2008.

6. Quoted in James Flanigan, “Israeli Companies Seek Global Profile,” New York Times , May 20, 2009.

7. Interview with Laurent Haug, founder and CEO, Lift Conference, May 2009.

8. Interview with Tal Riesenfeld, founder and vice president of marketing, EyeView, December 2008.

9. The information from this passage is largely taken from Michael A. Roberto, Amy C. Edmondson, and Richard M. J. Bohmer, “ Columbia ’s Final Mission,” Harvard Business School Case Study, 2006; Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox, Apollo (Birkittsville, Md.: South Mountain Books, 2004); Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger, Apollo 13 (New York: Mariner Books, 2006); and Gene Kranz, Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (New York: Berkley, 2009).

10. Michael Useem, The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All (New York: Three Rivers, 1998), p. 81.

11. Roberta Wohlstetter quoted in Michael A. Roberto, Richard M. J. Bohmer, and Amy C. Edmondson, “Facing Ambiguous Threats,” Harvard Business Review , November 2006.

12. Interview with Yuval Dotan (fictitious name), IAF fighter pilot, May 2008.

13. Interview with Edward Luttwak.

14. Interview with Eliot A. Cohen, director of the Strategic Studies Program, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, January 2009.

15. Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling quoted in Thomas E. Ricks, “A Brave Lieutenant Colonel Speaks Out: Why Most of Our Generals Are Dinosaurs,” Foreign Policy , January 1, 2009, http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/01/22/a_brave_colonel_speaks_out_why_most_of_our_ generals_are_dinosaurs.

16. Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling (United States Army), “A Failure in Generalship,” Armed Forces Journal , 2007, http://www.armed forcesjournal.com/2007/05/2635198.

17. Interview with Eliot Cohen.

18. Giora Eiland, “ The IDF: Addressing the Failures of the Second Lebanon War,” in The Middle East Strategic Balance 2007–2008 , edited by Mark A. Heller (Tel Aviv: Institute for National Security Studies, 2008).

19. Quote identified from interview with Carl Schramm, March 2009.

20. William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, and Carl J. Schramm, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007); and Carl Schramm, “Economic Fluidity: A Crucial Dimension of Economic Freedom,” in 2008 Index of Economic Freedom, edited by Kim R. Holmes, Edwin J. Feulner, and Mary Anastasia O’Grady (Washington, D.C.: Heritage Foundation, 2008), p. 17.

CHAPTER 6.

An Industrial Policy That Worked

1. Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel), “Gross Domestic Product and Uses of Resources, in the Years 1950–1995,” in Statistical Abstract of Israel 2008 , no. 59, table 14.1, http://www.cbs.gov.il/reader/shnaton/templ_shnaton_e .html?num_tab=st14_01x&CYear=2008.

2. Howard M. Sacher, A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time , 2nd ed. (New York: Knopf, 1996), p. 30.

3. “Yishuv,” in Encyclopedia Judaica , 2nd ed., vol. 10, p. 489.

4. Quoted in Time/CBS News, People of the Century: One Hundred Men and Women Who Shaped the Last Hundred Years (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), p. 128.

5. Leon Wieseltier, “Brothers and Keepers: Black Jews and the Meaning of Zionism,” New Republic , February 11, 1985.

6. Quoted in Meirav Arlosoroff, “Once Politicians Died Poor,” Haaretz, June 8, 2008.

7. Daniel Gavron, The Kibbutz: Awakening from Utopia (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), p 1.

8. Bruno Bettelheim, The Children of the Dream: Communal Child-Rearing and American Education (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), pp. 15–17.

9. Alon Tal, Pollution in a Promised Land: An Environmental History of Israel (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), p. 219.

10. Alon Tal, “National Report of Israel, Years 2003–2005, to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD),” July 2006, http://www.unccd.int/cop/reports/otheraffected/national/2006/israel-eng.pdf.

11. Dina Kraft, “From Far Beneath the Israeli Desert, Water Sustains a Fertile Enterprise,” New York Times , January 2, 2007.

12. Information for this passage comes from Web sites of the Weizmann Institute, Yatir Forest Research Group, http://www.weizman.ac.il/ESER/People/Yakir/YATIR/Yatir.htm, and the Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael/Jewish National Fund, http://www.kkl.org.il/kkl/english/main_subject/globalwarming/israeli%20research%20has%20worldwide%20implications.x.

13. Reut Institute, “Generating a Socio-economic Leapfrog,” February 14, 2008, http://reut-institute.org/data/uploads/PDFVer/20080218%20-%20%20Hausman%27s%20main%20issues-%20 English.pdf.

14. Reut Institute, “Israel 15 Vision,” http://www.reut-institute.org/event.aspx?EventId=6.

15. Information in this passage is from Yakir Plessner, The Political Economy of Israel: From Ideology to Stagnation (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994), pp. 11–31.